Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kai Arne Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Gender Representations ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender ◽  
Definition Of

Demonstrating that gender representations in popular culture are intertwined with a broad range of cultural, historical, and social discourses that shape both their production and reception, the introduction outlines some of the key concerns related to the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music. It discusses the theoretical and methodological foundations that may underpin an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and interpretive approach to the study of popular music and gender, and places an emphasis on grappling with the multiple affordances elicited by pop artists’ construction of identity across several platforms. It advocates for an inclusive definition of pop music that encompasses the range of musical and cultural impulses that circulate in mainstream popular music culture. It also discusses the selection of material for a study of pop music and masculinity, and considers the benefits and limitations of an artist-centered interpretive approach.

Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

Notes ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Robert Walser ◽  
Sheila Whiteley
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender

Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 479
Author(s):  
Renee Lapp Norris ◽  
Sheila Whiteley
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender

scholarly journals Research Note: Popular Music and Gender in Jamaica

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 267-282
Author(s):  
Beverley J. Anderson ◽  
Winston E. Langley
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Research Note ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender ◽  
Images Of Women

Recent discussions about Jamaica’s popular music — reggae — have focused on the kinds of images of women that have been created by reggae artists, especially those who focus on “dance hall” reggae. Content analysis is used here to examine the lyrics of thirty five songs created and performed between the mid-1960s and the end of the 1980s in an attempt to determine whether the images of women in reggae lyrics are largely negative and may contribute to norms that foster discrimination against women.

scholarly journals ВОКАЛЬНО-ЕСТРАДНЕ ВИКОНАВСТВО УКРАЇНИ КІНЦЯ ХХ – ПОЧАТКУ ХХІ СТ.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Vocal Music ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Vocal Art ◽  
Definition Of

Наведено огляд досліджень щодо теорії музичної естради як частини масової культури. Розглянуто умови формування та становлення української вокально-естрадної музичної культури в контексті основ масового вокального мистецтва. Виявлено підходи до визначення естрадного мистецтва як соціокультурного явища в історичному континуумі, зазначено стилі і напрями масової музичної культури, а також роль засобів масової комунікації для поширення вокально-естрадного мистецтва. З’ясовано, що естрадно-вокальна музика розвивається в усіх доступних традиційних та новітніх, синтезованих жанрах і претендує на своєрідне значення в формуванні психологічного портрету сучасної людини.Ключові слова: масове мистецтво, естрада, вокал, музична культура. An overview of research on the theory of the musical variety as a part of mass culture as a whole is given. The conditions of formation and formation of Ukrainian vocal and variety music culture in the context of the basics of mass vocal art are considered. Approaches to the definition of variety art as a sociocultural phenomenon in the historical continuum are described, the styles and directions of mass musical culture, as well as the role of mass communication for the distribution of vocal and variety art are described. It is revealed that pop-vocal music develops in all available traditional and modern, synthesized genres and claims a peculiar importance in forming a psychological portrait of a modern man.Key words: mass art, pop music, singing, musical culture.

“Funky fresh dressed to impress”

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Kreyer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Considerable Body ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Since the beginnings of modern popular music, listening to pop songs has been one of the major pastimes in Western countries, raising the question how popular music contributes to the shaping of beliefs and attitudes in general and gender roles and stereotypes in particular. While there is a considerable body of research concerning the depiction of men and women in pop music videos, the lyrics of pop songs, so far, have largely been neglected as a viable source of data. On the basis of two corpora of contemporary pop songs by male and female artists, respectively, the present paper explores discourses of femininity and masculinity as represented in the lyrics of pop songs. It is shown that although the two corpora behave surprisingly similarly in some respects, the way in which male and female artists refer to themselves or to the opposite sex might contribute to the consolidation of unfavourable roles for women.

Getting into the groove?

Popular Music ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-402
Author(s):  
Jill Halstead
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Popular Music Studies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender

Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender.Edited by Sheila Whiteley. London and New York: Routeledge, 1997, 353 pp.Sex, sexuality and articulations of gender are well-established components in the production and performance of popular music. Hence, Sexing the Groove, edited by Sheila Whiteley, is a very welcome addition to this vital and growing area of popular music studies and cultural theory more generally. The collection reflects the reality that studies of gender and sexuality in popular music are born of a hybrid lineage; accordingly the book approaches its subject from a range of disciplines such as sociology, cultural theory, media studies, sychology and musicology, and as such is a vibrant mix. Despite its relative diversity, the book's structure and progression is fluent and focused.

scholarly journals The teaches of Peaches: rethinking the sex hierarchy and the limits of gender discourse

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Sex Hierarchy

The goal of this Major Research paper is an exploration detailing how Canadian Electro-Pop artist Peaches Nisker transcends normative gender and sex politics through performance and frames the female erotic experience in a way that not only disempowers heterosexuality but also provides a broader more inclusive sexual politics. Through this analysis I focus specifically on three distinct spheres; performance, fandom and use of technology to argue that her critique of sexual conventions provides an cxpansive and transgressive new definition of female sexuality. Musical performances by female artists, particularly icons such as Madonna and Britney Spears, have demonstrated popular culture's inability to legitimize queer and non-compulsory heterosexual practices. These performances often function as limiting representations of the sexual female. Queerness in popular music culture is often showcased as non-traditional and used as a form of spectacle. The appropriation of homoerotic imagery has traditionally served the purpose of appeasing the mass patriarchal pornographic gaze. I argue that Peaches embodies the essential queer spirit, presenting a politics that builds upon a more fluid sexuality. She reconfigures queer and heterosexual imagery using the language and framework that has been provided by compulsory heterosexuality, to shatter the foundation so often used against women and thereby presenting a new female erotic.

Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

1999 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 551
Author(s):  
Cheryl L. Keyes ◽  
Sheila Whiteley
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender
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